Book Review: 'Alte Zachen/Old Things,' by Ziggy Hanaor, and 'My Neighborhood,' by María José Ferrada
These old people don’t exist only for their grandchildren, if they have any, and they don’t dispense wisdom or soup.
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These old people don’t exist only for their grandchildren, if they have any, and they don’t dispense wisdom or soup.
Two picture books and a graphic novel treat swimming as an expansive state of being, slippery with promise.
Children’s Literature in Translation: Tapioca Stories Yael Berstein of Tapioca Stories In recent years, a proliferation of books in translation for children and young adults has brought imaginative stories from around the world to new readers. We’re speaking with some of the extraordinary publishers who make these books possible about their experience working in this vital field. For the eighth installment in with Yael Berstein, founder of Tapioca Stories. WWB: How did Tapioca Stories come into being? Yael Berstein (YB): I’ve always loved illustrated books, maybe even more now, a...
New House to Focus on Latin American Translations By Ed Nawotka | Dec 17, 2020 With nearly 60 million Americans identifying as Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there is a fast-growing, untapped market for children’s stories from Latin America. Tapioca Stories is a new children’s book publisher that aims to fill that demand. The house launched earlier this year and released its first two titles this December. The first is from Argentina, The Elevator by Yael Frankel, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude. The second title is The Invisible, a book o...